Have you any idea how much a 40GB SSD costs? And an expresscard port? Where do you propose to fit that....

Sure sounds nice, but honestly, you're dreaming.

I have an Eee 701... never use it. Maybe I'd use the 901 more, maybe not. I actually sell these things at work. Everyone wants the black 901, with Linux as it has the bigger SSD in our market, and they grab an OEM XP Pro to run on it. Ends up the same price as the XP model with the 8GB SSD.

Asus are treating the Eee like Motorola exploited the V3.

Totally agree. I have completely lost faith in Asus' vision for this product line. The 8.9 in he 7" formfactor is about perfect.

Well, I have a Fisher and Paykel front loader....

Pfft, I just read engadget as the RSS feed. I don't get ANY ads :D

:o

Sounds like you're with Telstra BigPond

You mean bundling virtual PC to run the old Windows kernal along side the completely new, redesigned OS, that ensures backwards compatibility without having to have work arounds in the new OS?

Great idea.


Except Apple did it, and called it Classic.

... what?

Not quite, re: iLife.

If you format your hard drive you won't lose iLife. Just install Leopard, and then run the Optional Installs installer off your Tiger recovery disc, and you can install iLife off that.

So no, it's not part of Leopard directly, but yeah you have it for life.

One thing though, Marcus, is that by large Apple are still a hardware company, whereas Microsoft are a software company. Sure, we are discussing an operating system here, but one factor for Microsoft having such powerful non-OS applications is that that is their entire business model.

The non-OS applications that Apple offer have mostly been bought from other companies, and refined. This doesn't make them any lower in quality, I might add, and in the areas where Apple do make software, it's generally done right, for example Final Cut Studio and so on.

You can't honestly say that Microsoft couldn't, for example, put a more powerful Windows Mail into their OS and get away with it. I don't mean embed Outlook 2007, but realistically they can't be stopped from offering high quality applications with their OS, provided that they are kept separate from the core OS.

iPhoto, for example runs independently to OS X, and can be deleted with minimal fuss. If, however, Apple chose to replace the "Pictures" folder with an embedded version of iPhoto (which is an interesting concept, given the similarity of the Finder and iPhoto interfaces now) that could not be removed, then this would be the same as Microsoft embedding IE all those years ago with IE 4 and so on.